Year: 2012

It was during the fall of 1968 when a young Civil Court Judge left a meeting of the Queens County Bar Association with a unique thought. “There are highly respected ethnic-based lawyer organizations throughout. Why not a professional organization of Jewish lawyers in Queens?” he pondered. And so a wondrous

The issue of whether the plaintiff suffered a “serious injury” as defined in the Insurance Law §5102 (d) is raised constantly in those cases in which a plaintiff claims soft tissue injuries, bulging discs, disc herniations, and other cervical and lumbar syndromes. Where the court concludes that a claimed injury

Under our civil law, the plaintiff has the burden of proof to establish by a fair preponderance of the credible evidence that the injury sustained resulted through the negligence of the storekeeper defendant. The law also recognizes there are those cases where the instrumentality that caused the injury was within

The cases that require expert scientific support are quite common in the personal injury field. Take for example a typical medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff claims that Dr. “X” through his negligence caused injury “Y”. Typically, and at least thirty days prior to trial, plaintiff must, in accordance

There are thousands of products on the market, each of which can cause harm to the consumer or user of the product. When injury occurs as a direct consequence of use, there are various theories of law and legal remedies available to the consumer. For example, the product may have

Simply stated, negligence is the doing of an act that a reasonably prudent person would not do under the same or similar circumstances. Negligence is also defined as the failure to do an act that a reasonably prudent person would do under the same or similar circumstances. The above rule

Falling down steps is not an uncommon occurrence or unusual type of accident. It happens every day to people given the thousands of steps found overall in apartment buildings, subways, office buildings, private homes, commercial establishments, etc. The law is rather clear in a case where plaintiff falls and (1)

With millions of products on the market, it can be reasonably anticipated that a certain number of consumers will sustain an injury in the use of a product. The question therefore asises: what are the rights of the injured consumer as against the manufacturer? The same question applies to the

A typical case arises when a motor vehicle strikes a pedestrian thereby causing serious injury. The questions that are usually raised are whether the operator violated any traffic statutes (e.g. traffic light, stop sign, or other traffic devices); whether the operator drove his vehicle with reasonable care (e.g. speed, road

No matter whether caused by a car accident or a fall from improperly maintained stairs, suffering a spinal cord injury (SCI ) can change a person’s life. Unfortunately, SCIs are not uncommon: roughly 450,000 people in the United States currently live with a SCI. Each year, approximately 10,000 people suffer